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IMPROVEMENT IN ,BAKE-Paws.

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vTo ALL wHoM 1T MAYooNoERN Be it known that 1 JUSTS CHASE, Jr., of Watertown, inthe county of Je`ersonand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Pansfor BakingCorn, Rye, or other Bread; and I dohereby declare' that the'followings a full, uclear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, refer'encebeng had to the annexed d rawings, making a part.oi` -this specification, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views. i' A The natureof my invention consists in so constructing a bread-pan that the' steam or moisture of the dough, whichis evaporated during the process-of baking the 'dough into bread,`cannotesc ape from the, pan

withoutpassing' downwards through the dough, thus producing bread of the desired moistness, and giving it (in the case'ofcorn or rye bread) a desirable color and ii'avor and the desideratum of a thin crust.

To enable others skilled .in thcfart to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describeits construction and opera-tion. ,Y

1 The'pan, as a whole, is made of cast iron,.and in two' parts, iig. 1 being the'bottom part, (or pan.proper,)

and'iig. -2 the cover. The interior surface of both pan and cover is enamelled in the same mannerasis the i enamelled hollow'iron-ware.` The pain (figjl) is formed of the circular ,disk A, the annular iange or ring B rising perpendicularly to the disk,and the ear C, which ear is duplicated inthe side of the disk A, oppositeto 'that shown in-g.1.v D (fig. 2) is the cover,l of suciently greater internal diameter at its base than 'the exte-l rior diameter of the ring B, so that when the coveris placed on the pam-there will be, between the base of the cover and thering, what is termed a close ft. The form ofthe cover'is con'oidal, which is the best adapted to the purpose, the cover being a hollowV conoid,ia.nd of suliicient height above the dough and bread to -afford steam room. E (iig. 2) is'an ear, cast-on the base and side of the cover, and is duplicated on the'base and side of the cover opposite to it. F, in iig. 2, is a pin, passing through the lug of the ear C, and is to secure thecovertothe-pan. 1 y n The 'process of'baking is'conducted as' follows: A suioient quantity of dough is placed in the pan to nearly iill it to the .top of the ring. The dough is then allowed to prove or raise the proper length of time, but not solong that it will runeover therig. .l The cover is then placed on the pau and secured to it, as shown in iig. 2,

.the pin F, and the hole which it enters, being so ttedand arranged thatthecover will beheld'olosely to the pan. (N. B. The drawing showsV too much play between the pin and ear The pan, with-its contents, isthen placed inthe baking-oven, (the oven should be of Vmoderate heat,) and the baking continued for' about four hours.

Y The advantages of my improvement 'are the following: The heatvoflthe oven, of course, generates. steanifrom the moisture'in the dough, 'and continues so todo throughthe' process of the conversion of the 'dough into bread. There being no escape for the steam'except at the' joint formed bylthe junction ofthe b ase of the cover with the' pan, the ldoughland bread are being constantly permeated with the steam during thepi'ocess of baking. This produces and preservesa moistness in th'ebread, which isa desirable quality, and which cannot be effect-ed in bread-pans vof the ordinary-construction. The bread, if-co'rn or. rye, is colored .a reddish brown, which is a desideratum, and the crust, instead oi' being thick', hard', and dildicult of mastication, and thereforeoften wasted, is thin, and of nearly the same consistency-of the interior ofthe loaf.V The enamel lining is a preventiveof anyV discoloration of the bread andrupleasant'iiavor, the internal moisture of the pan preventing the slackening of the enamel. l

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, 'and desire t'o-secur-e by -Letters Patent of the nitedl States, .is-- Thebread-pan, consisting of dome D and base A B, with suitable connecting-devices, constructed as herein described, and forl the purposes sctfforth,

- In testimony whereof, I havevsigned'my'name to this specification before two subscribing witnesses.

` JUSTUS CHASE, In.

i Witnesses:

FRED. EMERSON, JNo. M. SIGOURNEY." 

